On Oct 8, 2012, at 1:18 AM, Robert J. Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sellers are encouraged in the guidelines to put their desired licensing > terms in their product descriptions. Yash has chosen not to do that. It > may or may not result in an outcome that he doesn't like, but it's his > choice as a seller/author. (If he doesn't like the outcome, he can change > his mind in the future.) That's where I am not clear with what The Source, and the people involved, like you, are trying to do with that download store, after all the discussions here on copyright, remuneration etc. What I am seeing from the guideline here: http://origamiusa.org/guidelines-for-download-sellers is that "licensing terms" for diagrams is only mentioned as a side note in the "details" of the product description. > By providing your instructions to purchasers, you are implicitly granting > them the right to fold from them, at least, for personal use and enjoyment. > If you are willing to grant further rights, such as the right to teach the > design commercially or to fold the design for sale, we encourage you to > include that information in your description. Conversely, if you would prefer > people not do any of those things (or others), you might wish to make that > clear, too. Couldn't The Source have a clearer policy regarding licensing terms for the diagrams ? Something like putting that into a category just below the "The Origami Source" item, to make sure the author is aware of the importance of the item, and proposing a default term that covers wide use of the model (like do anything, commercial or not) along with a number of optional limits to the use down to "personal folding only" ? > work. There would be existing licenses to choose from (as well as some > free-form entry for authors whose choices didn't fit the standard ones.) Are the existing licenses already defined ? Jean-Christophe Helary ---------------------------------------- fun: http://mac4translators.blogspot.com work: http://www.doublet.jp (ja/en > fr) tweets: http://twitter.com/brandelune
